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Saturday, August 23, 2003

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has presented the Smart Cape Access Project of Cape Town, South Africa, with the 2003 Access to Learning Award for their exceptional efforts to provide free access to computers and the Internet to the people of Cape Town. Smart Cape also received a US $1 million monetary award to replicate the pilot project in all 107 public libraries in Cape Town, provide training for library staff, patrons and volunteers, and further their innovative work to bring information technology to the public